Last year, it was discovered that Russia had attempted to use Tumblr accounts to influence users and potentially affect the US election.

Reports show Russian trolls from the Internet Research Agency posed as Black Lives Matter, activist, and even Pokémon Go accounts and used these to share content that they hoped would influence voting behaviour.

Then last week, Tumblr users who had interacted with the trolls received emails notifying them of this. The email stated that Tumblr had uncovered and terminated 84 accounts linked to the Internet Research Agency.